Ben Mauk
@benmauk
Followers
8K
Following
32K
Statuses
2K
I write for @nytmag and @newyorker, sometimes elsewhere. Teaching @cwruenglish. Writing a book @fsgbooks. https://t.co/UkZmMb1mFH
Berlin / Cleveland
Joined July 2009
In 2017, this man — an undocumented Uyghur refugee named Hasan Imam — planned and executed a daring escape from a Thai detention center, digging through the wall of his compound with a rusty nail.
31
513
3K
RT @ABarnardNYC: I just heard NPR call “DOGE” “Musk’s government efficiency team.” That seems like journo malpractice at this point - repea…
0
55
0
RT @matthewstoller: So an insane story by @musharbash_b, a private equity roll-up of fire trucks is why more than half the fire trucks in L…
0
1K
0
"We're going to break up the monopolies (on violence)!"
Musk sees the state as both a distressed firm requiring a turnaround and workout and, in almost all cases, an inefficient allocator of resources open to replacement by private service providers.
0
7
24
USAID is the better example here because the organization does a huge amount of lifesaving humanitarian work that doubles as a cheap investment in soft power and then its employees will also get caught red-handed drumming up coups in Cuba.
You gotta wonder how many CIA people are looking at "federal waste" meme grants, tearing out their hair, thinking "That 'research fellowship for the study of Afro-Cuban foodways' was our 3 best fuckin' people in Havana"
0
0
1
RT @hahauenstein: A new investigation by @972mag exposes how Israel weaponized toxic gas to asphyxiate Hamas militants and leveled entire r…
0
180
0
May I instead recommend
We flew from our house in Malibu to our house in Honolulu so I could write one article about the presidential elections. Then we went from our house in Honolulu to my apartment in the Upper West Side, where I was meeting Tony Soprano at the diner. My daughter, Quintana Roo, was
0
0
2
RT @wang_maya: Great to see such commitment. @hrw continues to call on the Thai govt not to deport the Uyghurs to China. Instead, Thailand…
0
17
0
RT @Magnus_Fiskesjo: Thai lawyer petitions court for release of detained Uyghurs. The court is due to hold a hearing Feb. 17 Lawyer Chucha…
0
1
0
RT @PinstripeBungle: the most "it's a magazine not a clip" annoyed I get is when 8 flags in bio accounts talk about USAID as oh its a CIA c…
0
133
0